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The Joshua Roll
There is a sheet of parchment in the Vatican Library that is about thirty centimetres tall and rather more than a metre wide, and it is covered along its entire height with…
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The Codex Assemani 66 and the Halakhic Midrashim
The oldest large page of rabbinic literature in Europe is not on a Jewish bookshelf. It sits in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, under the catalogue number Vat. ebr. 66, in a plain…